Blog module (single and multi-user blogs)

The core Blog module that comes with Drupal allows every authenticated and authorized user to maintain an individual online blog. Blogs are made up of individual posts that are time stamped and are typically viewed by date as you would view a journal. Blog entries can be made public or private to the site members, depending on which roles have access to view content.

Note that the blog module is not necessary for a "single-user" blog, that is a site that only has one individual blogging (the most common situation). For that it's easy to create a custom content type that will accommodate. Blog module is usually used when there is a need for "multi-user" blogs, where many different blogs, written by different users are all running on one site. If you would like more information on creating a single-user blog, here is a Single User Blog recipe to get you started.

Uses

The blog module adds a blogs navigation link to the main navigation menu (the link must be enabled), which takes any visitor to a page that displays the most recent blog entries from all the users on the site. The navigation menu has a create content link (which takes you to a page with a link to a submission form) and a my blog link (which displays your blog entries as other people will see them). The blog module also creates a recent blog posts block that can be enabled.

Drupal also provides an RSS 2.0 feed for each blog.

You can

• read your blog via your user profile at my account.
• post a blog at Create content > blog entry (Drupal 5 and 6) or Content > Add content > Blog entry (Drupal 7).
• administer blog at Administer > Settings > Content types > Blog entry (Drupal 5 and 6) or Dashboard > Structure > Content types > Blog entry > Edit (Drupal 7).
• administer blog api at Administer > Settings > Blogapi (Drupal 5 and 6).
• enable the "recent blog posts" block at Administer > Blocks (Drupal 5 and 6) orDashboard > Structure > Blocks (Drupal 7) to show the 10 most recent blog posts.